Exhibition showcases different facets of colour white

In an experimental exhibition that concluded here last evening, 20 Delhi-based-artists came together in an attempt to explore the interpretation of the absence of hues, by working solely with the colour white.
The idea for the 8-day long show titled, "White on White," was mooted to showcase different facets of the colour by stimulating "the potential of creativity which also lies in simplicity, silence and nothingness."
"The idea of this experimental exhibition was to create the profoundness of simplicity, the abundance in less, the cosmic sound in silence and the essence of nothingness," Shobha Broota, who has curated the exhibition said.

Sukanya Garg, who quit her job in an MNC to become a full-time artist, used the same colour to depict two "extreme" ideas of death and beauty, in her work titled, "Shades of Addiction."
"I wanted to bring out the extreme interpretations of white which signifies both beauty and death," she said.
Garg used a box of pastel-crayons painted in white to represent cigarettes symbolising addiction. She said she wanted to point out how something that is enjoyed initially, culminates into death.

"Every addiction has two sides, and I thought cigarettes represent them the best. It also blended with our theme," she said.

The artist's love for rain has manifested into her second exhibit called, "Unblinded" where she used a white window to establish the need for 'living in the moment' that often gets lost in the regret for the past and pursuit of the future.
"I love the sound of rain. All you need to do is to open your window to feel that. I made a window with blinds to show that if you open the blind, you can see the other side of the life which celebrates the present moment," she said.
Mansi Verma's paper-based "Abundance" was more abstract and invited multiple interpretations from the viewers.

"My art work is based on anything that can be associated with abundance. I left it on people to interpret it their way otherwise they will start thinking in a limited bracket," Verma said.
Other artists participating in the exhibition included Aashna Mehta Kataria, Aditi Saigal, Aditya Verma, Amit Das and Anuradha Saluja among others.